Painting and Drawing: "Expressions" lettering design

“Expressions” poster

You will be designing posters for this year’s district art show. The show is at SIlverwood park, and has a nature theme. One (or more) chosen designs will be professionally printed and put up all over town! You will learn about typography and lettering design to design your poster.

Draw the word "Expressions" using different lettering styles

1. Look at different fonts. Go to fontsquirrel.com, dafont.com or urbanfonts.com. Write down the names of two that you like on your worksheet. 
2. Look for images of hand-drawn typography using google image search and hand drawn posters
3. You can print one page of letter styles to look at while you are designing if you want too.
4. Look at the printed fonts from the examples Ms. Fowler gives you
5. Do a practice drawing
6. Lightly sketch on your final paper (fill the page)
7. First we will paint with watercolor, then add colored pencil- make it bright and eye-catching! Blend colors!

8th Digital Art: Yearbook Project

Your class has been hired to create artwork for the title page of this year’s yearbook. Use Photoshop to turn an ordinary picture of the school building into a work of art! All of the instructions can also be found on caarts.blogspot.com

Directions:

1. Chose and photo and copy to your desktop. Go to Fowler Classroom > Materials > School Photos.
2. Drag the photo onto the PS icon to open it in Photoshop
3. Make the photo more interesting. Change it from a dull, wintery photo into something more fun!
4. Try images adjustments. Go to Image (at the top) > Adjustments. Try the different menus. “Vibrance”, “Hue/Saturation” and “Color Balance” will all change your picture dramatically.
5. Now try Filters. Go to Filter (at the top) > Filter Gallery. Go through the folders to try different filters. You will notice whatever colors you have chosen will be used in the filters, so you may want to change your colors.
6. If you know how to use Photoshop, you may want to try cutting and pasting in parts of other pictures. You can use the “copyright free” photos links on caarts to look for other photos.
7. If you need some inspiration, look at the past student examples HERE
8. When you are finished, save a final copy into your folder, and the HAND IN WORK folder. Name it YourLastNameYearbook.psd

You have only this class to finish. One chosen project will receive a free yearbook!

8th Digital Art: Surrealist Dreamscapes

1. Watch presentation and take notes

2. Get Real with Salvador Dali Video. Part 1, and Part 2

3. Webquest

4. Sketch your Dreamscape

5. Start designing. Collect your photos from morguefile.com or fotopedia.com

6. Read through the requirements on your worksheet.

Dove Evolution Video

Salvador Dali

Todd Schorr, American Surreal

Modern Surrealism Video 1

Modern Surrealism Video 2

Modern Surrealism Video 3

GAMES: Surrealist Frogger

Build Your Wild Self

8th grade: Artful Writing

We will look closely at an artwork by Gustav Klimt and complete a writing activity. By asking yourself a series of questions, you can look more cloesly and deeply at a work. Listen to this example of the process from the Weisman Art Museum in Minneapolis.

Now try looking at this artwork: Gustav Klimt, "The Kiss"
And answering these questions:

How to Critique on CA Gallery

7th Digital Art: Dream Destination Prezi

1. Vocabulary
2. Go to Google Maps and look through this list of major cities of the world. Pick a city from a foreign country.
3. Log into prezi.com to get started. Use your SCHOOL GOOGLE EMAIL: Your name + apps.isd13.org, and your password should be your school ID number.
4. Add a title, photo and introduction paragraph
5. Use Google image search and save a map of your country, showing your city
6. Look up the weather for your chosen city. Try weatherspark.com. Google your city and "average weather" or try World Climate
7. Research arts and culture questions
8. Look up major attractions in your city
9. Go to KAYAK for flight and hotel information
10. Student example

Some travel websites: Lonely Planet, Fodors, Wiki Travel, Kid's World Travel

Painting and Drawing: Collage Portraits

Mark Bradford

1. Watch presentation and take notes
Rosemary Karuga

Mark Bradford videos (Paradox)

Romare Bearden

2. Explore these websites:

Romare Bearden website

Collage Maker

3. Take a picture of yourself. Save it to the Fowler>Classroom>Paint/Draw folder. Ms. FOwler will print it. Trace onto white paper.

Past student work

Extra Credit: Humanimal collage

Maurice D.

7th Digital Art: Cartoon yourself!

This project will introduce you to some basic Photoshop tools and using mouse control. We will use Photoshop to trace a digital photo and show an expressive and emotive cartoon face.

This cartoon project relates to the animation projects we will try later in the semester. Watch a video on the history of animation:
The Animated History of Animation

Create an Animated GIF

some good GIFs: One, Two, Three, Four, Five

Look at these examples from last semester

We will practice writing an artist statement to go along with your project.

8th Media Arts: Klimt-inspired self portrait

Research: Writing Activity: "The Kiss" by Gustav Klimt
Go to schoology.

1. Read about Gustav Klimt and answer the questions on your worksheet.

2. Klimt Video (optional: Art Nouveau presentation)

3. Go to Art Lex and search "Art Nouveau." Read and look through examples. Then use the dictionary to complete the Vocabulary section.
Art Nouveau video

4. Start your design. Watch the demonstrations and follow the directions on your worksheet. Video: How to use patterns in Photoshop

Download Photoshop Patterns

5. Look at some past student work.



If you have extra time, explore iKlimt or Color a Pattern

Klimt's portrait "Adele Bloch-Bauer I" sold for $135 million, the highest price ever reported on a painting